Stakeholder Engagement Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 24 82
Rank change year-on-year +1 +58 +29
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 205 152 42
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.58% 8.82% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.58% 9.35% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 115 27
10th Percentile £400 £413 £358
25th Percentile £463 £463 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -4.00% -3.81%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £709
90th Percentile £763 £782 £760
Central London median daily rate £555 £595 £600
% change year-on-year -6.72% -0.83% -7.66%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Stakeholder Engagement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,938 1,625 1,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.60% 94.31% 92.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,344 1,103 1,216
10th Percentile £368 £326 £371
25th Percentile £456 £423 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £765 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 19
10th Percentile £17.39 £16.96 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.09 £21.81
Median hourly rate £20.25 £27.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% -28.57% +23.20%
75th Percentile £27.35 £39.88 £102.25
90th Percentile £44.85 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +27.27%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stakeholder Engagement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Stakeholder Engagement job vacancy trend in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (4.88%) Confluence
2 9 (4.39%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.90%) Apache
3 8 (3.90%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.98%) SAS
6 1 (0.49%) CMS
6 1 (0.49%) HCL Notes
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.44%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.98%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.98%) SAP MDG
2 2 (0.98%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.49%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.49%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.49%) Maximo
3 1 (0.49%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.49%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.49%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.49%) SAP FI-AR
3 1 (0.49%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.49%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.49%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.49%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 55 (26.83%) Azure
2 31 (15.12%) Power Platform
3 27 (13.17%) AWS
4 15 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (6.34%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (5.37%) GCP
6 11 (5.37%) Snowflake
7 8 (3.90%) Microsoft Copilot
8 7 (3.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (3.41%) Entra ID
9 6 (2.93%) dbt
9 6 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (2.93%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (2.93%) SaaS
9 6 (2.93%) Serverless
10 5 (2.44%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (2.44%) GitHub
11 4 (1.95%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.95%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.46%) Network Security
2 2 (0.98%) DNS
2 2 (0.98%) Internet
2 2 (0.98%) LAN
2 2 (0.98%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (0.98%) VPN
2 2 (0.98%) WAN
2 2 (0.98%) Wireless
3 1 (0.49%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.49%) Firewall
3 1 (0.49%) HTTP
3 1 (0.49%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.49%) PSTN
3 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.49%) VLAN
3 1 (0.49%) VoIP
3 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.66%) Power BI
2 18 (8.78%) Metadata
3 14 (6.83%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.39%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.93%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.44%) Star Schema
7 4 (1.95%) Delta Lake
7 4 (1.95%) Tableau
8 3 (1.46%) Data Vault
8 3 (1.46%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.46%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.46%) Power Query
8 3 (1.46%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.98%) Ataccama
9 2 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.98%) Looker
9 2 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.98%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (8.78%) JIRA
2 3 (1.46%) Git
2 3 (1.46%) GitLab
3 2 (0.98%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.98%) Selenium
3 2 (0.98%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.49%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.49%) Gradle
4 1 (0.49%) JDeveloper
4 1 (0.49%) JUnit
4 1 (0.49%) Maven
4 1 (0.49%) MLflow
4 1 (0.49%) Mockito
4 1 (0.49%) MSI
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
General
1 84 (40.98%) Social Skills
2 74 (36.10%) Finance
3 36 (17.56%) Public Sector
4 34 (16.59%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (16.10%) Banking
6 19 (9.27%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (4.88%) Retail
8 8 (3.90%) Investment Banking
9 7 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.93%) Marketing
11 4 (1.95%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.95%) Front Office
12 3 (1.46%) Billing
12 3 (1.46%) Local Government
12 3 (1.46%) Military
12 3 (1.46%) Police
12 3 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.98%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (16.10%) Architect
2 32 (15.61%) Analyst
3 25 (12.20%) Lead
4 22 (10.73%) Project Manager
4 22 (10.73%) Senior
5 21 (10.24%) Data Architect
6 19 (9.27%) Business Analyst
7 14 (6.83%) Developer
8 13 (6.34%) Consultant
9 8 (3.90%) Data Analyst
10 7 (3.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 7 (3.41%) Change Manager
11 6 (2.93%) Data Engineer
11 6 (2.93%) Power BI Developer
11 6 (2.93%) Senior Developer
11 6 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.95%) Insurance Business Analyst
12 4 (1.95%) Programme Manager
12 4 (1.95%) Python Engineer
12 4 (1.95%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.34%) PySpark
2 8 (3.90%) REST
2 8 (3.90%) Terraform
3 4 (1.95%) Spring
3 4 (1.95%) Spring Boot
3 4 (1.95%) XML
4 3 (1.46%) FastAPI
4 3 (1.46%) JSON
4 3 (1.46%) Kafka
4 3 (1.46%) Middleware
4 3 (1.46%) RESTful
5 2 (0.98%) Flask
5 2 (0.98%) Playwright
5 2 (0.98%) React
5 2 (0.98%) SOAP
6 1 (0.49%) .NET
6 1 (0.49%) EDI
6 1 (0.49%) Hibernate
6 1 (0.49%) SAML
6 1 (0.49%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.78%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.34%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.85%) Data Structures
4 11 (5.37%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.90%) AI Agents
6 7 (3.41%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.95%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.46%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.98%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.98%) Derivative
9 2 (0.98%) FMCG
9 2 (0.98%) NHS
9 2 (0.98%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.49%) CCTV
10 1 (0.49%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.49%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.95%) Linux
2 3 (1.46%) Unix
3 2 (0.98%) Windows
4 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (39.51%) Stakeholder Management
2 58 (28.29%) Agile
3 49 (23.90%) Decision-Making
4 40 (19.51%) Analytics
5 39 (19.02%) AI
6 38 (18.54%) Data Modelling
7 37 (18.05%) Business Intelligence
8 36 (17.56%) Data Governance
9 35 (17.07%) Roadmaps
10 34 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (15.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (15.12%) DevOps
12 31 (15.12%) Migration
13 27 (13.17%) CI/CD
14 25 (12.20%) Data Architecture
14 25 (12.20%) Requirements Gathering
15 24 (11.71%) Project Delivery
16 21 (10.24%) Project Management
17 20 (9.76%) Translating Business Requirements
18 19 (9.27%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 36 (17.56%) SQL
2 24 (11.71%) Python
3 9 (4.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (2.44%) Bicep
4 5 (2.44%) Java
5 4 (1.95%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.98%) LookML
6 2 (0.98%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.49%) C#
7 1 (0.49%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.49%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.49%) Korn
7 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.49%) Scala
7 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.15%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.37%) Degree
4 8 (3.90%) PMP
5 6 (2.93%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.44%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.46%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.46%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.98%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.98%) OSCP
10 1 (0.49%) APMG
10 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.49%) GPEN
10 1 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.49%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (16.59%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.85%) GDPR
3 11 (5.37%) PMO
4 10 (4.88%) QA
5 7 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (3.41%) NIST
6 6 (2.93%) NCSC
7 4 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.98%) GRC
9 2 (0.98%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 2 (0.98%) PERC
9 2 (0.98%) SLA
10 1 (0.49%) APQC
10 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 1 (0.49%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.49%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.49%) SEPA
System Software
1 8 (3.90%) Docker
2 6 (2.93%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (3.90%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.98%) Istio
4 1 (0.49%) Grafana
4 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (25.85%) Microsoft
2 26 (12.68%) Databricks
3 16 (7.80%) SAP
4 7 (3.41%) Google
4 7 (3.41%) Oracle
4 7 (3.41%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.44%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.95%) Informatica
6 4 (1.95%) Workday
7 3 (1.46%) CyberArk
7 3 (1.46%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.98%) BMC
8 2 (0.98%) Cisco
8 2 (0.98%) IBM
8 2 (0.98%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.98%) Remedy
8 2 (0.98%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (0.98%) Teradata
8 2 (0.98%) VMware
9 1 (0.49%) Palo Alto